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Nq. 576.756. Patented Feb. 9,1897.

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SAMUEL M. COLE, OF MANCHESTER, NEW HAMPSHIRE, ASSIGNOR OF ONE- HALF TO OSBORNE W'. PRICE, OF SAME PLACE.

COM BlNATlON-TOOL.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 576,? 56, dated February 9, 1897.

Application filed December 27, 1895. Serial No; 573,496. (No model.) I

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, SAMUEL M. COLE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Manchester, in the county of Hillsborough and State of New Hampshire, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Combination-Tools; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

Tools useful to a sportsman or others when on an outing trip frequently prove too cumbersome or weighty to be carried with any degree of comfort; and the object of the present invention is to provide a sectional toolhandle adapted to various tools, as hereinafter specified.

The invention consists of a sectional toolhandle, such as hereinafter described, adapted for tools, such as a hammer, hatchet, spade, pick, &c., and having means for interchangeable connection therewith, as more particularly pointed out in the claims.

Figure 1 shows in elevation two sections of pipe or tube adapted to form my improved tool-handle, Fig. 2 showing the same parts as when coupled together and having a spade attached. Fig. 3 shows one section of the handle to which is attached a hatchet and pick. Fig. 4 is a similar view in which a hammer is substituted for the hatchet. Fig. 5 is an elevation of my improved handle as when coupled together, so as to make a suitable length fora spade, the spade being shown firmly planted in the ground and the opposite end of the handle being fitted with a handvise. Figs. 6 and 7 represent atoasting-fork and a spear, respectively, each adapted for connection with the handle.

Similar reference -letters indicate correspondin g parts throughout the several views.

Two or more sections may be comprised in the handle, the idea being to take it apart and place with the various tools which are made purposely to fit it in a satchel or bag made expressly for them. Hence the more parts which comprise the handle the shorter the space in which the tools may be packed; but in the drawings I show the handle composed of two sections A B, preferably formed of tubing, and the ends of both being externally threaded. The section A has at one end a threaded connection C, which resembles a T-union, the transverse portion of which has 5 5 its ends internally threaded for the reception of certain tools to be hereinafter explained, and this transverse portion takes the place also of an ordinary spade-handle, or handle proper. At the other end of this section A is attached a sleeve a, into which, when the full length of handle is required, the section B is screwed. The opposite end of the section B is provided with a sleeve 1), into which any of the tools illustrated or the like may be screwed.

D is a spade having a threaded stud d, fitting the threads of the sleeve 12. E is a fork having a threaded stud e, and F is a hook having a similar stud f, both of which studs are provided withthreads fitting those of the sleeve 1) or those of the connection 0, for, as a matter of convenience, all threads will be formed the same, and thus the parts will be interchangeable; but the spade, fork, and hook are the most useful when attached to the sleeve 19 of the section B, to which the section A will be attached.

G is a hatchet-blade having a threaded stud g, which will be found most useful when attached to either end of the transverse portion of the part C, which is also adapted to receive the threaded stud h and 2', respectively, of the hammer H and pick I. A hand-vise J may also be provided with a threaded stud j, as shown in Fig. 5, fitting either end of the part C, and by sinking the spade into the earth X, as shown in the same figure, the vise will be held sufficiently firm to be of much use to camping parties of prospectors or ge- 9o ologists.

Various tools (not shown) may enter into the combination, which will form a useful kit to accompany a camping party, which too often are compelled to depend upon rocks for 5 hammers, sticks for pokers and forks, which burn 0E, dropping the meat or other articles placed upon them to be cooked into the fire. The hatchet if substituted for the spade will serve a good purpose as an ice-cutter, and various combinations will he suggested to those who aresupplied with this improved sectional tool-handle, which is conveniently adapted for the interchangeable connection of a variety of garden and camping tools.

Having described my invention, what I claim is- 1. Atool-handle havinga pluralityof separable sections, one section being provided with a tool-holding socket disposed lengthwise the section and the other section provided with a transverse sleeve constituting a handle proper and having sockets, the sockets of the sections and of the handle proper being all similar, whereby the sections can be joined and whereby various tools can be interchangeably connected to either section or to the main handle or to said handle proper or to both the main and proper handles at right angles to each other, substantially as described.

2. A tool-handle having a plurality of separable seetions,one section being provided with a tool-holding socket disposed lengthwise the section and the other section provided with a transverse sleeve constituting a handle proper and havin sockets, the sockets of the sections and of the handle proper being all similar, whereby the sections can be joined and whereby various tools can be interchangeably connected to either section or to the main handle or to said handle proper or to both the main and proper handles at right angles to each other, said handle being provided at its end opposite the handle proper with a blade adapted to enter the soil and support the handle and tool, substantially as described.

3. A tool-handle having a short transverse socketed sleeve, or handle proper, at one end adapted to receive a vise and having at the other end a fixed blade to penetrate the soil for holding and supporting the handle and vise from the soil in an operative position, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

SAMUEL M. COLE.

\Vitnesses:

J. B. THURSTOX, O. W. PRICE. 

